HP, Microsoft ally for unified communication
May 19, 2009
Our intrepid at-large editor Birket Foster just called to point out a new alliance HP announced at today's Interop conference. The vendor will partner with Microsoft to spend up to $180 million (together) on Unified Communication (UC). If UC is new to the migrating HP 3000 user, HP summarizes it thusly in its press release:
It will enable customers to improve business output and reduce travel, telecom
and IT operating costs. This would be accomplished by streamlining
communications across messaging, video and voice with connected
applications and devices.
Foster, calling from in front of the HP booth, sounded like he was awash in a wave of excitement. The solution runs, of course, using Microsoft Windows.